Restore your body, mind and soul.
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Restore your body, mind and soul.
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You are welcome here.
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Welcome. I am glad you are here.
Twenty years ago, I started doing this work because I believed something that turned out to be true. People are more capable of healing than most of us have been taught to expect. And so are our nervous systems.
I still believe that. More than ever.
I am Andrew J. Heinz, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I have completed Intermediate III with Somatic Experiencing® International (SEI™) and am currently in my final year of advanced training. That matters to me because this work is not something I learned once and moved on from. I am still inside it. Still being shaped by it.
Over two decades of sitting with people in real pain, including addiction, grief that never got to land, and trauma that found a home in the body and stayed there, I have come to understand something no textbook fully captures. The body holds what the mind cannot process. When we learn to work with the body rather than around it, something shifts that does not shift any other way.
That is what somatic work is. Not a technique, but a different relationship with yourself.
I work with people who have tried things before. People who are thoughtful and self-aware and still feel stuck. Former athletes who know how to push through but have not learned how to come back to themselves. Professionals who have built what they were supposed to want and still feel like something essential is missing. People carrying grief or trauma that has quietly shaped their lives.
If any of that sounds familiar, you are in the right place.
Take a look around. There are articles, guides, interactive somatic practices, a nervous system check in tool, a self assessment, and a free app you can add to your phone. All of it is here for you, whether or not we ever work together.
If you are looking for someone to walk with you through this, I would be honored to connect. I meet people where they are and support the work in a way that is steady and workable.
Andrew J. Heinz, MSW, LCSW, CCPT II, CGP, Intermediate III student Somatic Experiencing International
Serving Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, and the greater Denver area.
Most people who find their way here have already done a lot of work on themselves. They are not new to trying. What they have not yet found is something that reaches the places words alone cannot.
Relationships do not break all at once. They erode slowly, in patterns that both people are usually too close to see clearly. This work creates enough space to understand those patterns and find a different way through them.
Anxiety is not a character flaw. It is a nervous system doing what it learned to do. The work is not to eliminate it but to understand what it is protecting and help the system find a safer way to respond.
Whether you are carrying something from long ago or navigating something happening right now, you deserve care that meets you where you actually are. Not where you are supposed to be.
Most men are taught to manage, push through, and keep it together. That works until it doesn't. This is a space to be honest about what is actually happening, without judgment, and to build something more sustainable than sheer willpower.
Adolescence is genuinely hard, and the pressure young people face today is real. This work creates a space where they can be honest, be heard, and begin to understand themselves from the inside out.
Trauma does not live in the past. It lives in the body, in the nervous system, in wounds that never fully healed because they never fully had the chance to. This work helps you process what happened at the level where it actually lives.
Addiction is almost never about the substance. It is about what the substance is managing. This work gets underneath the behavior to the pain, the patterns, and the parts of yourself that have not yet found another way.
Grief does not follow a timeline and it does not always look like sadness. Sometimes it shows up as numbness, anger, restlessness, or a quiet sense that something essential is missing. This is a space to let it be what it actually is, without rushing toward the other side.
The body holds what the mind cannot always access. Somatic practice builds the capacity to listen to that, to work with the nervous system directly, and to develop a felt sense of safety that no amount of talking can fully create on its own.
Some people have spent years in therapy and still feel stuck. Others are new to this and sense that surface-level work will not be enough. What they have in common is that they are after something real, not just relief. This is for them.
Doing this work takes something out of you. Andrew offers support specifically for clinicians navigating the personal weight of the work, including vicarious trauma, burnout, and the particular grief of caring deeply about people you cannot fix.
This guide introduces four simple yet powerful practices: Orientation, Contact, Movement, and Grounding; with Breath as the integrator. Together, they form the “Four Pillars” of Somatic Foundations, offering a gentle and accessible pathway into safety, presence, and renewal.
This guide is designed for people who feel easily flooded by emotion — whether through anxiety, anger, or shutdown, and want a simple script to follow when safety breaks. It’s also helpful for couples who find themselves escalating quickly and need a shared language to pause and reconnect.
I do not believe any single method holds the whole person. People are too complex for that, and healing rarely moves in a straight line.
My work draws from several frameworks, chosen based on what each person actually needs rather than what fits a protocol. At the center of everything is Somatic Experiencing®, a body-based approach developed by Dr. Peter Levine that works directly with the nervous system. Most of what brings people into therapy, the anxiety, the depression, the stuck patterns, the emotional flooding or shutdown, lives in the body as much as the mind. SE™ addresses that directly.
Alongside that I draw on Internal Family Systems, which offers a compassionate way of understanding the different parts of ourselves that developed to protect us and often end up running the show long past their usefulness. I also use trauma-informed Cognitive Behavioral approaches when they fit, and mindfulness practices that support the capacity to be present with difficult experience without being overwhelmed by it. For clients navigating addiction and relapse, I integrate relapse prevention work that is grounded in the same somatic and parts-based understanding rather than willpower alone.
What ties all of it together is a belief that the mind, body, and emotional self are not separate systems to be treated separately. They are one system. When we honor that, something becomes possible that piecemeal approaches tend to miss.
This is not a menu of techniques. It is a way of showing up for the whole person.
The body is always communicating. Somatic work helps us learn to listen. Through practices that support nervous system regulation, we reconnect with internal signals that have often been overridden, ignored, or numbed out. From that reconnection comes something more reliable than insight alone: the capacity to actually feel safe in your own skin.
The mind is not the enemy. For many people it has simply become the primary tool for managing everything, and that gets exhausting. With curiosity rather than force, we begin to notice the patterns that have been running the show and create enough space to choose something different.
There is a part of every person that knows something the mind cannot fully articulate. Soul care is the work of coming home to the whole of yourself, including the parts that have been hidden or forgotten. When those parts find harmony with one another, something shifts that goes deeper than symptom relief.
Andrew J. Heinz is here to support your journey toward healing and growth. Whether you have questions about my services or are ready to take the next step, I’d love to hear from you.
Reach out today, and let’s begin your path to empowerment!
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